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11:50 AM ET, January 4, 2021

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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Should Be Prosecuted for His Shakedown of Georgia's Brad Raffensperger  —  President Donald Trump likely broke both federal and state law in a Saturday phone call during which he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line  —  In a bombshell conversation with Georgia's secretary of state yesterday, President Donald Trump made monkeys of every Republican official and every conservative talking head who professed to believe Trump's allegations of voter fraud.
Newsmax:
Trump Ga. Transcript Shows Case for Vote Fraud, President Acted Properly  —  The Washington Post on Sunday released audio of a Saturday phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the two can be heard discussing election results.
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and The Week
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good morning from Atlanta, Gateway to the South and the pulsing center of Tuesday's two U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine partisan control of the upper chamber and the success of Joe Biden's first term as president.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Call to Georgia Official Might Violate State and Federal Law  —  The president's demand for action to overturn the result of the election in the state raised questions about whether he violated election fraud statutes, lawyers said, though a charge is unlikely.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Raffensperger: Trump could face investigation over election call  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney.
Megan Henney / Fox News:
AOC slams Trump's call with Georgia secretary of state as an ‘impeachable offense’  —  Democrats condemned Trump's leaked call with Raffensperger  —  Biden, Trump to rally in Georgia ahead of historic runoffs  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Trump of committing …
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Georgia GOP lieutenant governor says Trump call with secretary of state ‘inappropriate’  —  Washington (CNN)Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor on Monday condemned President Donald Trump's phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, saying the President's effort to pressure …
Washington Post:
Here's the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger
NBC News:
Chaos, division, shakeups and shakedowns: Two months that sum up Trump's presidency
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Just Security
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump ‘just plain wrong’ on fraud claims: Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger
Discussion: Washington Times, IJR and Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The GOP Can't Stop Biden but They'll Murder Democracy Trying
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez says Trump's Georgia call is an impeachable offense
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas:
Cotton Statement on Joint Session of Congress  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 734-0430  —  Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the joint session of Congress later this week:
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Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
Reps. Brooks and Jordan on GOP group challenging Electoral College results
Discussion: Washington Post and HotAir
Maria Hardiman / Voter Protection Program:   Guide to January 6th Joint Session of Congress Released by Voter Protection Program
Jessica Yun / Yahoo Finance:
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma suspected missing  —  Speculation has swirled around Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's whereabouts after reports surfaced that the high-profile businessman has not made a public appearance in more than two months.  —  The Alibaba founder also failed to appear …
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Reuters:   Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's whereabouts
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Worse Than Treason  —  “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”  Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism  —  The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers.  Executives have struggled to handle the change.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers …
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Washington Post:
All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory  —  Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Plane Sightings Fuel Rumors Trump Planning Escape to Scotland on Day Before Biden Inauguration  —  GOLF WAR  —  Something strange is happening on the west coast of Scotland.  According to a report from the Sunday Post, a lot of unusual U.S. military activity has been recorded at one airport …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Peter Swindon / The Sunday Post:
Donald Trump could be planning Turnberry trip as Scots airport told to expect a high-flyer the day before Joe Biden's inauguration
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
117th Congress kicks off with GOP civil war, calls for impeachment and plexiglass  —  With assists from Melanie, Heather, Burgess, Andrew, and Kyle  —  It's less than 24 hours into the 117th Congress and we've already seen Republicans break out into a civil war, Democrats renew calls …
The New York Times Company:
Metro's New Chief Political Correspondent  —  Katie Glueck, a talented and hard-driving political reporter with a knack for landing scoops, is joining Metro.  Read more in this note from Clifford Levy and Dean Chang.  —  A populace still reeling from the pandemic.  A damaged economy, with worsening inequality.
Washington Post:
Audio: Trump's full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state  —  As Georgia runoff looms, Republicans stick to election fraud claims  —  Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes  —  Republicans previously promised Trump would accept the election results
 
 
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